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CMST 220 - Public Speaking (Budak): Library Session

Library class guide for CMST 220 taught by Budak

What Is Research?

THINK: for the next minute, consider how you might respond to the following questions: What is research? How do you do research? What are the different parts of the process? Where can you get help? ​How did you feel about doing research?

 

For 2 minutes, WRITE or DRAW on the whiteboards in response to these questions:

  • 5 words 
  • A few sentences
  • A picture
  • Other...

 

Then take 2 minutes to WALK around the room and observe your classmates' responses

APA 7 Rules

  1. Capitalize the first word, first word after a colon, and proper nouns in article and book titles
  2. List up to 20 authors in your reference entry
  3. Don't include a URL for articles from databases that don't have DOIs
  4. Include page numbers of articles in your reference entry
  5. Watch your punctuation!
  6. Capitalize all major words in journal titles
  7. Italicize book titles, journal titles, and journal volume numbers
  8. Don't include place of publication
  9. No period after DOIs or URLs
  10. Standardize DOIs into the preferred format for all entries. Should all begin with https://doi.org/  For example, https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040251

Bonus: In-text citation, three or more authors: first author’s name and “et al” (Studebaker et al., 2017)

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